Quinn defends proposed means test changes for student grants

Education Minister Ruairi Quinn has dismissed suggestions that changes to the means test for student grants amounts to an attack on rural Ireland.

Education Minister Ruairi Quinn has dismissed suggestions that changes to the means test for student grants amount to an attack on rural Ireland.

Minister Quinn was responding to criticism of a new Capital Assets Test which could make it more difficult for the children of farmers or the self-employed to receive grants.